Re: [gNewSense-users] network connection

[Sam Geeraerts]

address@hidden schreef:
> Hello Sam,
>
> Thank you for your comments, which clearly took some effort on your part. 
> However, I regret that I still do not understand how it is that there is a
> common reluctance to write "I use a <name here> network card successfully
> under gNewSense".  As I have indicated before, I wanted to use free

Most people use their computer's built-in network interface. So they 
don't have box with a brand and type on it of their network chip, or 
even their motherboard. And even if they did, it wouldn't translate 
easily to brand+type of a separate network card.

Any ideas about how to encourage users to contribute hardware reports 
are welcome. Leading by example, as you did, is a good start. You might 
also want to submit a report for the other hardware categories in the 
FSF list. Another thing you can do is ask anyone who comes here for help 
with a hardware problem to submit a report. Or write a guide on how to 
do that.

> software but was held back by my existing network card; so, when I had
> some time, I bought a couple of cards, flipped a coin, chose a card, and,
> lo and behold, got lucky the first time - it worked.  Hence:
>
> I use a D-Link DGE-530T (wired) network card successfully under gNewSense.
>
> I realize that this is a very small piece of information; I cannot even
> tell you which driver is in use - but it is already in gNewSense 2.3.  I
> have informed address@hidden

You can find out the driver by running this in a terminal:

dmesg | grep eth

Alternatively, you can also do

lspci -nn | grep -i ethernet

That tells you the PCI id in square brackets, e.g. [8086:1229], which 
you can look for in /proc:

grep 80861229 /proc/bus/pci/devices

The last column of that output will tell you the driver you're using.